Mikhael Frieden
In a much more fundamental sense, if they were not given constitutional protections they really could be rounded up and bussed across the border.
And what would be wrong with this?
Not a damned thing. While in this country they are in the act of committing a crime. Once they have been deported they have stopped committing the crime and then they can plead to appear in court.
It used to be, that people are "felons under an increasing number of laws". Now we've congressed to an "increasing number of felons regardless of what they do" (their "crime" is being from "other side" of the pencil-lines, that the statists have drawn on their papers). Even the "freedom-loving", no-boundaries etc. Cypherpunks fall over those imaginery "border-lines", without having it ever dawn on them, that *everything* done now to "illegal immigrants" will one day soon be extended to the government-issued passport/digital VeriSign-Tax-ID bearing "Americans" as well. (Please refer to the "War on Drugs" for proof of patterns.) In fact, it's being done already. The systems developed to "track down illegal aliens" can track ANYBODY for that matter. AnybodyHomeMonger